AMARULA SUNSET
Seeing as it’s a Friday I thought it would be nice to share a cocktail recipe. This is more of a desert I think than an “alcoholic” beverage. Try and take a look at the Amarula website they have quite a number of cocktails up there as well. I used Strawberry ice-cream for this instead of vanilla as recommended because I JUST LOVE strawberries. I also used a lot more strawberries. I used them whole as I love the taste and feel of strawberries that have not been fully pureed. I also had to use frozen ones as I can not find fresh strawberries in Kakuma so I normally buy them fresh, clean them then freeze them my self. If you like you could puree the strawberries first then add the rest of the ingredients.
Ingredients
- A hand full of strawberries/ about a cup of whole strawberries
- 50 ml Amarula Cream (you can also use Baileys)
- 1/2 cup strawberry ice cream ( I used Amore)
Method
Blend ingredients and pour into a wine or martini glass. Garnish with a fresh strawberry
Thai-style Beef and Mango Salad
Mangoes!!! Where to start? I love them, especially in the months of December to around February when they are in season and they are incredibly cheap and most times very sweet. So over the next couple of weeks I will try to incorporate them in many of my dishes. I had this salad for supper last night, I loved it. It was a very quick meal. I marinated the meat for about a half hour went about my business and when it came to the actual cooking it took me less than 10 minutes. I also used the marinade as a dressing and it was DELISH!!!! HAPPY COOKING
Ingredients
- 450g of steak (eg sirloin or fillet, I used fillet)
- 45ml garlic-infused olive oil ( if you do not have this you can use regular oilive oil)
- 2 tsp crushed garlic ( if you do not have the garlic infused oil)
- 45ml teriyaki/ soy sauce
- 1 tbsp honey ground black pepper and salt
- 2 mangoes, peeled, stoned and finely sliced
- small bunch of dhania
Instructions
Put the oil, garlic, teriyaki/ soy sauce, honey, salt and pepper in a shallow bowl and mix. Put in the steak and make sure it is fully coated in the marinade. Marinate for at least 10 minutes, 2 hours in a covered bowl in the fridge is ideal
Heat a pan and place the steak on it. Cook for 3-5 minutes each side depending on how done you want the steak to be. Transfer the steak to a bowl and let it rest for about two minutes.
Meanwhile heat the marinade in the pan, cook it for a few seconds then remove it from the heat. Thinly slice the steak and arrange on four serving plates with the mangoes. Drizzle over the pan juices to serves.
If you want the steak to cook faster you can slice the meat before marinating it.
Use mangoes that are ripe but still firm
MULTIPURPOSE DOUGH RECIPE
I found this recipe at Fauzia’s Kitchen Fun last week when I was in a panic about making puff pastry. I had two failed attempts after which I decided to look for an easier option and ended up with this one. I expected it to be very bready but it actually wasn’t too bad so for one of those days your feeling to lazy to try and make your own puff or too lazy to rush to the supermarket to buy some or too broke to buy use this recipe it won’t disappoint. You can use this for pies and rolls. HAPPY COOKING!!
INGREDIENTS
- 1 and half cups white flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 4 tablespoons oil
- ½ teaspoon instant yeast
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup milk+water mixed half and half
METHOD
1. Sift the flour in a large bowl, add the salt, yeast and baking powder
2. Add the oil
3. Warm the water/milk mixture to as hot/warm as your hands can tolerate during kneading. The hotter the better as the dough will be softer but don’t make it boiling hot.
4. Add the milk mixture slowly into the flour as you knead the flour until u have a soft firm dough, not too sticky
5. Knead the dough well on a floured surface. Pound the dough as you turn in around so as to make the dough soft (almost like you would for chapattis or mandazi)
6. Set aside for about 30 mins for the dough to rise.
7. Use as needed
